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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish jerigonza, from Old Occitan gergons, from Old French jargon. Doublet of jargão.
The political sense was a generalization of the informal name given to the 21st Portuguese government.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ge‧rin‧gon‧ça
Noun
geringonça f (plural geringonças)
- contraption (complicated and precarious machine)
- Synonym: engenhoca
- slang (language outside of conventional usage)
- Synonyms: gíria, calão
- (Portugal, politics) a government formed by several parties, often in order to prevent a party who won a simple majority, from governing